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Paul Johnson We've scoured the Web to bring you some of the most unusual hotels out there. They not all that luxurious but curious nonetheless and so I think worthy of a mention on any travel blog due to their quirky nature. Free Spirit Spheres , Canada Seemingly floating among the treetops, you could be forgiven for thinking these spheres are UFOs if observing them from a distance.  They sway in the breeze and with people's weight and typically accommodate two people at a time. The Capsule Hotel , The Netherlands Moored (yes, I said 'moored'!) in the Hague, these orange capsules are in fact old 1970s survival pods rescued from an oil rig.  They're tight for space but can accommodate up to three, and there's still space left over for an emergency chemical toilet. Sala Silvermine , Sweden This single suite can be found 120km from Stockholm and 155 metres underground in a mine that produced more than 3 tons of silver a year at the height of its prod...

The extreme of food now has a new treat du jour - shots of stallion semen. New Zealanders will be serving up glasses of horse semen at the famed Hokitika Wildfoods festival next month, a "delicacy" that racehorse owner Lindsay Kerslake says will have extreme foodies "raring to go". "Horses are pure testosterone, you know. They have hardly any cholesterol, so the idea is you knock it back and feel like a stallion yourself," said Mr Kerslake, of Christchurch. "You'll have as much zizz as a stallion for a week afterwards." The NZ$10 shots won't be for the faint-hearted. Even the organiser of the edgy festival, Mike Keenan, said he wouldn't be letting the drink pass his lips. "God no, it's definitely not to my taste, but you'll be shocked how many people will go for it," he said. The keenest will be able to drink it au naturel, but the shots will also be available in cherry, licorice and banoffee pie flavours. "You ...

I Had Ray Davis's Job, in Laos 30 Years Ago By ROBERT ANDERSON The story of Raymond Allen Davis is one familiar to me and I wish our government would quit doing these things - they cost us credibility.   Davis is the American being held as a spy working under diplomatic cover out of our embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan. You can understand why foreign countries no longer trust us and people are rising up across the Middle East against the Great Satan. In the Vietnam War the country of Laos held a geo-strategic position, as does Pakistan does to Afghanistan today.  As in Pakistan, in Laos our country conducted covert military operations against a sovereign people, using the CIA.   I was a demolitions technician with the Air Force who was reassigned to work with the CIA's Air America operation in Laos. We turned in our military IDs cards and uniforms and were issued a State Department ID card and dressed in blue jeans.  We were told if captured we were to ask for diploma...

The person who invented this sentence must be a vocabulary GENIUS. Read the sentence below carefully: "I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality counterbalancing indecipherability, transcendentalizes intercommunications' incomprehensibleness". This is a sentence where the Nth word is N letters long. e.g. 3rd word is 3 letters long, 8th word is 8 letters long and so on

Posted by Waren on August 1st, 2010 Now a days, every one is inclining towards the best of technology, so in the case of laptop also.Just take a breath and think a moment what are you are going to buy? Think what is in now a days, is laptop suitable for you, what kind of laptop suits for you.What kind of work you do with your laptop, like development, playing games, watching films, doing office work or just a status symbol. What is your need, consider following technical features before selecting a long life laptop.Below features are my suggestions, but every one has his own mind.   1. Speed : The first and most important feature is the speed. More the speed of a laptop processor higher is the result. i would suggest minimum 2.8Ghz will suit for every kind of user. 2. Ram : Ram of a laptop must be 2GB minimum for better response. If possible, it should be extendable. 3. Battery Life : Key feature of laptop is its battery life. Now a days 9 cell battery lot for 3-4 hours which is enoug...

It is our pleasure to present to you an alternate way of getting the essence of the Quran through these Surah wise reviews. Highlighting the important verses of each Surah, each review gives you something to think and reflect upon. "and we have indeed made the Quran easy to understand and remember, then is there any that will remember (or receive admonition) ?" 54:17 Para Reviews : Shaheen Ahmad Click Here S.no Surah Name S.no Surah Name S.no Surah Name 01 Surah Al-Fatiha 02 Surah Al-Baqarah Part1 , Part2 03 Surah Al-e-Imran Part1 , Part2 04 Surah An-Nisa 05 Surah Al-Maaidah 06 Surah Al-An'aam 07 Surah Al-A'araaf 08 Surah Al-Anfaal 09 Surah At-Taubah 10 Surah Younus 11 Surah Hud 12 Surah Yusuf 13 Surah Ar-Ra'd 14 Surah Ibrahim 15 Surah Al-Hijr 16 Surah An-Nahl 17 Surah Al-Isra 18 Surah Al-...